Author Olga Hughes

Olga Hughes is currently pre-occupied with fairy tales, fantasy, misanthropy, medieval history and the long eighteenth century. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts and is currently majoring in Literature and History at Deakin. She has contributed to websites such as History behind Game of Thrones, The Anne Boleyn Files and The Tudor Society.

BBC's 2016 Children in Need special stars Eddie Redmayne and, among other guests, someone we've been missing this year! Watch below.
BBC Children in Need 2016: Fantastic Beasts Special
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Star Wars have released a brand new behind-the-scenes video featuring Rogue One director Gareth Edwards and the cast discussing what it means to them to part of the Star Wars universe. Gareth also discusses whe...

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It is an unfortunate fact that the first four Harry Potter films were a disappointment. I had actually forgotten just how dreadful the first two films were until this week when Harry Potter and the...

Disney has revealed the first official trailer for Beauty and the Beast, and it looks every bit as stunning as we expected. Director Bill Condon was interviewed at the Disney blog, saying: "For me, it felt like...

The full cast for Selma director Ava DuVernay's adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time has been announced, and production is set to commence on Wednesday the 2nd in Los Angeles. Two weeks of filming scheduled for New ...

Deadline has just revealed that Johnny Depp will be joining the cast of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them in a co-starring role in the next film. David Yates will start filming early next year with Eddie ...

Christopher Tolkien is to receive the Bodley Medal, awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford for outstanding contributions to the worlds of literature, culture, science, and communication. ...

For this year's Halloween poem I have chosen C.S. Hughes' A Prisoner of This Tower, for the eerie connection between the verse and those who perished in the Tower of London who have been on my mind of late.
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Michael Bond has written a new book of Paddington adventures, which will be published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in April 2017. Paddington’s Finest Hour will show Paddington starring in a cookery TV show...

"A bromance as old as time"...
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Fourteen year-old Irish Canadian actress Amybeth McNulty has been cast as one of literature's greatest heroines, Anne Shirley, in the upcoming Netflix/CBC adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gabl...

David Heyman, the producer behind Harry Potter, Paddington and the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is teaming up with Warner Bros. to bring a new series of Willy Wonka stories to the big scree...

Showtime have revealed the first behind-the-scenes look at the highly-anticipated Twin Peaks reboot, which follows on from the cult 1990s tv series. The video features original cast members Kyle MacLachlan, Mig...

David Heyman and StudioCanal have announced that principal photography on Paddington 2 has commenced. Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson are joining the returning cast of Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walte...

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“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...” ― Terry Pratchett

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein